Oodgeroo Noonuccal

1 A) usher the Indians bemusement over the ways of the uninfected men. The line and I have ont understand is exploitation repeatition through the story and conveys the confusion and puzzlement over the white mens ways. B) Show the Indians disapproval of the whites word of put down. Phrases like there is no quiet place in the white manhoodhoods cities display the disapproval the Indians have over the whites treatment. C) lyric that show the importance to the Indians of their ancestors graves Sentences like Our dead never eat up this beautiful earth and The waters murmur is the voice of get downs father. Portray the importance of their ancestors graves and how the Indians feel about it. 2 a) How does the Indian see the idea of exchange and buying land? The Indian sees selling and buying land as wrong and unnatural. The land is 1 with man and shouldnt be abused. b) What condition does the chief set upon selling his land? The condition is for the white man to take care of the land and teach the future generations of how the land came to be and what it pass on be in future times. c) How does the Indian regard any living thingsThe Indian reveres all living things as being the soul of the earth. If man replaces the living things with unreal apparatus the soul of the earth will die. 3 a) The Indian is primarily interested in little things like every glitter pine tree needle and humming insect b) The Indian was silly enough to conceptualize the train was a smoking iron horse c) The Indians hearing was acute enough to hear sounds such as the unfurling of leaves of restrain These quotes are misleading because without the framework the generator intended the quote sounds shallow and insubstantial.But also taking the quotes too literally when really the author is using a metaphor. 4 a) The long Chief sends word he will reserve us a place so that we can travel comfortably to ourselves b) I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by t he white man who shot them from a breathing out train c) Even the white man whose God walks and talks to him as friend to friend cannot be exempt from the common destiny 5The misquote is the first one with the correct quote being The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the personal credit line of our ancestors 6 a) This quote is patronising. The writer stating almost obviously that he finds the Great Chief wrong. b) This quote is a comment on how the white man would assume that the red man has no idea because he is a savage. c) The white man sees himself as very different yet the writer feels they may have more in common than the white man thinks.